Monday, March 12, 2012

Frank and His Friend - Pen & Ink for Wonder-Con 2012

In the future, I'm hoping to have more time to devote to creating more one of a kind pieces for the shop, regardless of their form: sculpture, drawings, watercolors,… original art work tied to Curio & Co. properties. Here are some of the 4x6 pen and ink drawings that I did for the WonderCon, we'll have them for retail along with some of the Spaceman Jaxdrawings at our booth SP 56.

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PROFILE

I'm a designer and illustrator, who left Italy at the age of 14, and moved to California, studied a whole bunch of different things, Mechanical engineering at Cal Poly Pomona, then Industrial Design at Cal Sate Long Beach, and later graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting. And of course prior to graduation I spent six month studying in the UK and one year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

I'm truly a succor for knowledge; you see, I have a curious nature and love challenges. My first job was as an Industrial Designer at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana (I was on the team that opened the place), then in 2000 I relocated to Vienna, Austria were I landed a job as a Design Consultant at the International Atomic Energy Agency (I was designing multimedia material for the PR office). It was then that I decided to embark on a long voyage toward animation, which landed me a job the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank where I worked on Princess and the Frog as Layout Artist.

In 2009 I decided to star my own business with my better half, Kirstie Shepherd an extremely funny and creative author, and we gave birth to Curio & Co. a place where we can create the most crazy things that we can think of, like a user's manual for time machine or fictional 1960 animated TV show. We get to have loads of fun creating fictional characters, creating fictional works, in a fictional world (a Curioverse) where they all live together and interact. I know I know it takes some thinking to wrap your head around that, it's meta. Like I said, I enjoy a challenge, and creating Curio & Co. had been the biggest challenge yet, and yet it's extremely rewarding to see people take joy in our work, and that is the payoff. Plus, I get to research all sort of design styles, and production process; and I get to do it with the one I love.

I'm proud that Kirstie and I, as Curio & Co., published 5 books all unique in their own way; I got to co-develop, design, illustrate, and produce them from start to finish.